An evergreen tree
growing to 160 feet high with slender branches and a conical
shape bearing small flowers producing round brownish-gray cones
or nuts. Some cypress tress are reported to be over 3,000
years old.

(Heb. tirzah, "hardness"), mentioned only in Isaiah 44:14 (RSV,
"holm tree"). The oldest Latin version translates this word by
ilex, i.e., the evergreen oak, which may possibly have been the
tree intended; but there is great probability that our
Authorized Version is correct in rendering it "cypress." This
tree grows abundantly on the mountains of Hermon. Its wood is
hard and fragrant, and very durable. Its foliage is dark and
gloomy. It is an evergreen (Cupressus sempervirens). "Throughout
the East it is used as a funereal tree; and its dark, tall,
waving plumes render it peculiarly appropriate among the tombs."

These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D.,
Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas
Nelson, 1897. Public Domain, copy freely.

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